Dodd won't support nominee over Swift Boat contribution

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | March 28, 2007 | Sam Hananel (A.P.)

[DemEater]

He withdrew his name:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003639711_webfox28.html

He was DOA. I can't even imagine why they would put him up. He tried to make nice by telling Kerry he was a hero, etc.

[Rummyfan]

Dodd the Dud strikes again! I heard a rumor that this gutless wonder is running for President? Is that true?

A President Dodd.... now there's a scary thought!

[Always Right]

Fox, one of the nation's most prominent Republican fundraisers, made a $50,000 contribution to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Many Democrats blamed the group for sinking Kerry's presidential bid after it aired a series of TV ads that claimed Kerry, D-Mass., did not deserve his Vietnam War medals.

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"I would have preferred you saying, you know, 'In retrospect, looking back, contributing to the Swift Boat campaign was a mistake and I wish I hadn't done it,"' Obama told Fox.

It was a campaign. The strategy worked. How is that a mistake?

[lonerepubinma]

In our judgment, those who finance smears and lies of combat veterans don't deserve to represent America on the world stage," the letter said.


Then just how the hell can they support Kerry ?

[Graybeard58]

In a recent poll in his home state of Connecticut Dodd polled fourth place - behind undeclared Al Gore.

Dodd is a joke who is extorting money from bankers because he is now the chairman of the senate banking committee.

[HawaiianGecko]

How did Dodd get around the brilliance of this man for supporting the Swift Boat Vets?  It's like saying I'm not supporting Einstein because he put forth the General Theory of Relativity.

[viaveritasvita]

Fox reporting BUSH withdrew the nomination...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261986,00.html

[NativeSon]

Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, are raising concerns about President Bush's nominee for ambassador to Belgium because he gave money to the group that impugned Sen. John Kerry's war record during the 2004 presidential campaign.

I'm about to have stoke over here! How about Senator Clinton, besides the various "shenanigans" of her own, she supports and receives support from an Impeached former president AND disbarred attorney!

and how about myriad list of other colorfull characters that make up the criminal panoply that is the Left-O-Crats?

I need a drink

[Kimberly GG]

WASHINGTON -
"President Bush on Wednesday withdrew the ambassadorial nomination of businessman Sam Fox after Democrats denounced Fox for giving money to a controversial conservative group that undermined Sen.
John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070328/ap_on_go_pr_wh/kerry_swift_boat


You're very welcome President Bush.

[Graybeard58]

Yes, the article is moot but it does serve to point out the utter stupidity of Dodd and his ilk.

[NativeSon]

Yes, the article is moot but it does serve to point out the utter stupidity of Dodd and his ilk.

What stupidity? It worked! Where our leader's spines!?

[caisson71]

I guess that means I won't be asked to submit my name for consideration as Ambassador to Lower Slavobia?

[Beatthedrum]

Senator Dodd, isn't he the same guy who said on a radio interview, that he looked at all the evidence and believed Bill Clinton did rape Juanita Broaddrick...He's upset about a donation during a presidential race ?

Of course this same whore, Dodd, still couldn't vote to impeach a man he believed was a rapist ?

[Enchante]

"U.S. ambassadors need to be both responsible and credible"

Same should be said for ALL public officials, including Congresscritters, but unfortunately the Demagogues have almost no one in our public life who is "responsible and credible" -- good, why doesn't the entire Democratic Congress resign en masse (maybe allow a few exceptions like Lieberman) and retire from public life. I can't think of many Democratic officials I could ever call "responsible and credible" -- especially not you, Chrissy Dodd.

[Cold Heat]

They have Bush over a barrel on nominations now and for the rest of his term.

It is a fact and if Bush tries to fight it, he will be blamed for any and all consequences.

There are bigger fish to fight, and the Ambassador to Belgium, is not on the list. This is why we try not to lose elections, and the direct cost of the disease within the GOP today.

It is not going to get better either. Much more to come, including impeachment and a total loss of our domestic and foreign policy agenda.

And the worlds respect....

[sasafras]

Another Bush without Balls torpedo - ol Bush and the RINOs retreat without a fight.

[Shermy]

Bush folded again.

Another stab in the back.

Enabling John Kerry's fantasy life again,

will earn Bush nothing.

[Shermy]

"It is a fact and if Bush tries to fight it, he will be blamed for any and all consequences."

What "consequences?" It could only re-examine the Swift Boat claims, and Kerry will trot out parapalegics as a distraction from forcing him to answer.

"There are bigger fish to fight,"

That's the scary thing, what Norquist tells Rove to tell Bush to push. Their agenda is scary, though profitable with post 2008 consultancy job paybacks.

Bush needs to be kept in check, not enabled.

[NoBullZone]

I wish this guy had had the stones to tell Kerry: "I don't believe they were lies; I found them very credible and their credibility has been reinforced by your refusal to ever release your full military record, despite your nationally broadcast promise to do so."